COUNCILLORS have rejected a bid to consider using robots to cut grass across West Dunbartonshire.
Conservative Councillor Sally Page put forward a motion to the full council meeting last week for a trial next year on whether robot lawnmowers could make a difference.
She insisted it would not replace staff but use them elsewhere and ensure grass areas abandoned from grass cutting in the past two years would be tended to.
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Council leader Jonathan McColl moved an amendment that robotic lawnmowers could have an impact on local jobs and apprenticeships.
It stated: “We already have experience with remotely controlled equipment and can see no justification to consider a trial of autonomous systems at this time.”
Cllr Page’s motion was defeated.
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